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Apple is a non-sequitur. Tuuxedo is giving up on Qualcomm in favor of AMD and Intel. Do AMD and Intel require Tuuxedo to pay for premium support in order to ge

• bayindirh 11mo ago
  Apple doesn't actively lock and act hostile towards the reverse engineering folks. They just do their thing and sometimes do small jests to allow these folks to boot anything they want and play with the hardware. ...and while they're standing away from GPL stuff, they do have a dedicated site for Open Source software: https://opensource.apple.com/ https://opensource.apple.com/ Go to releases, and see what they do there.
  • maverwa 11mo ago
    if you are in the business of buying parts, assembling them, and selling the assembly under your brand (as tuxedo and others like them are), then Apple is a indeed not an option. Their chips might be the best, but you still can only get them in Apple devices, in the specs Apple provides and with no official support for any OS beside macOS / iOS.
    • bayindirh 11mo ago
      That's true. What I wanted to point out is the fact that the most tightly integrated and arguably the most locked down platform on the market is more open than a platform designed to be adapted by others and sold by many. I don't expect any daily-driveable alternative operating systems on Apple systems since it's a continuously moving target, yet Apple doesn't have a such heavy-handed approach. They just do their thing and do not hinder things actively like NVIDIA and Qualcomm.
      • ece 11mo ago
        This comparison makes no sense. It's desktops/laptops vs phones. In either case Apple is the worst offender. You cannot even use Nvidia/AMD/Intel DGPUs with AS Macs, or install other OSes on iPhone.
        • aystatic 11mo ago
          > You cannot even use Nvidia/AMD/Intel DGPUs with AS Macs afaik you technically can, except that m1/m2 force pcie bars to be mapped as device memory (forbids unaligned r/w), so most gpu software (and drivers) that just issue memcpys to vram and expect the fabric to behave sanely will sigbus. it's possible to work around this, and some people indeed have with amdgpu, but it'd absolutely destroy performance to fix in the general case so it doesn't really have anything to do with apple themselves blocking it but rather a niche implementation detail of the AS platform that's essentially an erratum
          • ece 11mo ago
            You would think Apple would update this or put out another support page supporting what you're saying: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102363 https://support.apple.com/en-us/102363 There's also an Apple VP saying unified memory on AS doesn't leave room for DGPUs and separate VRAM. I think this is more than just an erratum, even with newer chips. It's monopolistic behavior all too common nowadays.
            • aystatic 11mo ago
              don't see why they would care to put out docs on it considering macos doesn't even permit kexts anymore, there'd be no gpu drivers anyways. i figured it was obvious we're talking in the context of running linux on these things, given the parent topic. > There's also an Apple VP saying unified memory on AS doesn't leave room for DGPUs and separate VRAM can you link to this? my intuition is that they're speaking on whether apple would include dgpus inside AS systems like they used to with nvidia and amd chips in macbooks, which i agree wouldn't make much sense atp
  • bigyabai 11mo ago
    Your expectations are so comically low that I hold you in direct contempt as a user of "Hacker" News.
    • bayindirh 11mo ago
      I would not make ad-hominem attacks to people who I don’t know anything about.